WSOP 2009 News
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After Ylon Swarz (yes, the Team PokerStars Pro member was there again) busted in 3rd place. It was all finished… well, almost finished. It took just one hand for Bahador Ahmadi to claim the bracelet.
John McGuiness moved into the tank for his last 200,000, and Ahmadi would have called with any two cards. He simply was amassing a monster chip lead tha achived by calling down McGuiness in the previous Limit level.
Ahmadi played good and solid during the final table, moving when necessary, slowing down when it was need and, …
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A total of 275 players took their seats at WSOP Event #45 - 10.000$ Pot Limit Hold’em Championship three days ago in the last $10,000 event of the Series before the Main Event that will start on July 3rd.
From that crowded field, only 14 players came back yesterday to play for the first prize of $633,335, and things advanced quite quickly. In fact, at the second level of play, we reached the final table.
At the final table, players seemed quite cautious, and we reached an strange situation in a major …
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Wow! What a marathon! Today we can say that the two last men standing, Derek Raymond and Mark Tenner, deserved the victory in Event #46 - $2,500 Omaha Hi/Lo. Both played excellent poker but, as ever, ony one can claim the title. Finally, the honours went to Raymond who got the proper hands when he needed them.
Raymond started the day 9th in chips, out of the 23 players that were in the game. He played quiet poker and climbed his way up slowly, player after player. When the final table …
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Nobody doubts that Jeff Lisandro has achieved the most incredible goal any stud player has ever done in the WSOP, and maybe one of the greatest goals ever achieved in the series by anyone. He has won one bracalet in each stud game in the World Series and he has done it in the same year!
The third bracalet (and a $188,370 prize) for Lisandro came from Event #44 - 2,500$ Razz, where he literally destroyed the final table. He reached the final showdown with a 2 to 1 lead over …
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Michael Davis was one of the shortest stacks of the last day of Event #43 - 1,000 $ Seniors Tournament, but somehow he managed to climb the ladder slowly, step by step and he was the only man alive at de end of the journey.
Davis claimed the Seniors Championship title and WSOP bracelet after a short Heads-Up match against Scott Buller, the one that amassed the chipl lead during the most of the final table. In fact, he only lost it 10 minutes before losing all his chips against Davis.
After …
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Jeff “Iceman” Lisandro is in rush. The final table of Event #37, $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8-or-better, was almost eternal, but finally Lisandro decided that 3 and a half hours were enough for a heads-up match and busted Farzad Rouhani in second place to claim his 2nd WSOP bracalet of the year.
When we arrived to the Heads-Up, Lisandro was behind…
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Is well known by the poker community that H.O.R.S.E. is one of the most difficult (if not the most) poker discipline. Well, this is not for all. When it comes to James Van Alstyne, its seems he exels on it, having reached two HORSE final heads-up in less than one week.
The Event #21, $3,000 HORSE was one of them. Van Alstyne ended up facing Zac Fellows…
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Leo Wolpert was forced to win 7 rounds of heads-up matches against some of the world’s best players befort could arrive here at the final. The same was from John Duthie, the EPT Founder. Wolpert, a former pro player, he started in his early 20’s, decided to go back to school to study law. This summer he was in Nevada, for his internship, and Wolpert decided to give a shot at the $10,000 WSOP Heads-Up Championship…
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It took three long and extenuating days of poker, followed by a six hour final table to know who will end up claiming the bracalet in WSOP Event 28 - $1,500 No Limit Hold’em: Mike Eise is the new champion.
Mike Eise advanced through a field that contained 2,641 world class players from the seasoned pro of JC Tran…


